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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,175 works

Etching of two women in a shell chariot pulled by sea creatures across waves, with tritons and musicians on the right.

Two Women Sitting in a Shell

Pierre Brébiette, 1615-42

Nude Male Figure with a Sword

Alexandre Cabanel, 1878

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a kneeling nude male figure leaning over a low block on gray paper.

Crouching Nude Male Figure

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1864-74

Ink and wash drawing of a nude youth offering a boar's head to a draped woman among onlookers and satyrs.

Meleager Presents to Atalanta the Head of the Calydonian Boar

Guillaume Boichot, ca.1800

Etching of a satyr and a nude woman with two infants in a stone frame, surrounded by foliage and tree trunks.

The Satyr's Family

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1763

Charcoal study on grey paper of a muscular male nude with raised arm and sword, with a crouching figure in the corner.

Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso)

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1864-74

Brown wash drawing of a seated river god, a nymph holding an oar, and a reclining putto on clouds.

Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a seated nude woman with her head bowed, arms around her raised knee, in soft green tones.

The Embrace

Auguste Rodin, 1900-1910

Pen and ink design for a doorway with nude figures, putti, and medallions on a purple-washed ground.

Design for a Doorway

Monogrammist HT, 16th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of a heraldic shield with scrolls, flanked by female figures and putti in architectural niches.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1590

Pen and grey wash drawing of The Last Judgment with angels in the sky and crowds of nude figures rising and falling below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, 1615-20

Etching of figures plundering nude corpses on the ground beneath a large tree, with a distant group of figures behind.

Plate 16 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'They make use of them' (Se aprovechan)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Graphite sheet with sketches of a reclining draped figure and a smaller seated figure, by Eugène Delacroix.

Sheet of figure studies: two studies of a reclining figure, and a seated figure holding a lyre (?)

Eugène Delacroix

Pen and ink study of a seated bearded man in half-length, twisting torso, loose hatching and draped cloth.

Study of a Seated Nude, Bearded Man in Half-Length

the Elder Francisco de Herrera, 1610-54

Circular pen and ink drawing with wash of a garden of love, with bathing women, courting couples, musicians and a town skylin

The Garden of Love

Jörg Breu the Younger, 16th century

Studies of a Damned Man, for "The Barque of Dante"

Eugène Delacroix, 1822

Pencil sketch of a kneeling female nude above two studies of winged angels on pale paper.

Kneeling Female Nude and Two Studies of Angels

Georg Rafael Donner, early 18th century

Pencil sketch of a nude female figure standing in an arched niche framed by ivy, above a fountain basin.

Recto:Nude Female Figure in a Niche Verso: Study for a Fountain

Hans Gasser, 1830-68

Pencil sketch of a reclining nude woman with one arm outstretched on cream paper.

Reclining Nude with Outstretched Left Arm

Gustav Klimt, 1903-1904

Grey-toned sketch of musicians playing flute and cello beside a balustrade, with figures and trees behind them.

Recto: The Concert Verso: Seated Male Nude

Johann Liss, early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of Abraham raising a sword as a winged angel restrains him over a nude youth, Isaac.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Johan Carl Loth, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a standing nude woman with head tilted and arm raised, signed Gustav Klimt Nachlass in lower right.

Standing Nude

Gustav Klimt, 1906-07

Charcoal drawing of a seated nude male figure with head bowed, one arm across his shoulder, on a rock.

Seated Nude Male

Anton Raphael Mengs, n.d.

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated nude man gripping a staff, on blue paper.

Seated Male Nude Holding a Staff

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, mid-18th-late 18th century

Red chalk sketch of two reclining female nudes on tan paper, one resting her head on her hand.

Two Reclining Nudes

Gustav Klimt, 1905-1906

Pen and wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around Diana beside classical ruins, with a horned figure and dogs at right.

Diana and Actaeon

Georg Pecham, 1602

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude figure leaning back on one arm, legs bent across the ground.

Study of a Nude Young Girl

August von Pettenkofen, 1838-89

Pencil sketch of two nude women reclining and intertwined, with loose contour lines on cream paper.

Two Women Reclining

Gustav Klimt, ca. 1905-06

Brown ink and wash drawing of a chaotic crowd of figures struggling in a classical city square with arches.

Rape of the Sabines

Hans Rottenhammer, 1600

Grey wash drawing of Pygmalion gesturing toward a nude statue on a pedestal, with a cupid and classical columns.

Pygmalion

Joachim von Sandrart, 1662